Gabriel leaned against the outside wall of his Keep. He glanced down at the garden he had just finished tending. The flowers were closed up as they were every night. His heart twanged knowing he would never tend to them in the sunlight.
Liya had wanted red roses. Gabriel chuckled with mirth, thinking of how insistant she was. His smile disappeared as he wondered when she would return to him.
He was deep in thought when Fredrick came walking from around the corner. His beady eyes fell on Gabriel and immediantly fell away. Gabriel choked, he knew what it was before he even said. Liya was dead.
"Gabriel...I have some bad news." he said, his accent thick as the day Gabriel met him as a boy.
"How...how did it happen?" Gabriel said feeling his knees weaken.
"Details are still sketchy Gabriel, but it seemed to be Garou. Gabriel I'm so sorry." Fredrick took a step foward.
Gabriel was a million miles away. His chest tightened as he fell to his knees. His blue jeans thudding in the soil. He stared up at Fredrick. Fredrick's mouth opened and then closed again. He turned and walked away.
Gabriel sobbed, the blood tears soaking into the fertile ground.

The rain spattered onto Sorenti's face as he walked, he could see the graveyard up ahead, looming ominously with it's dark tombs like small skyscrapers against the night sky. He had seen Miss Bloodstaff and her companion stop there by one particular grave, Diam had put something down and it was this Sorenti sought.

He put a hand on the old gate to push it open when the view before him began to swim, the ground tilting violently to the left. His knees buckled and he clung to the gate for support as images flashed into his mind, Gabriel crying, Liya...Garou...

"Nooooooooo!" Sorenti cried out as the world circled him like he was drunk,
"Liya!....dear God...noooooo!"

Slowly the images ceased and the world stopped it's spinning, leaving him with an empty sense of despair, it seemed the Ventrue curse was striking again. In his mind, the curse played out in full as the Ventrue poured into his head...
Darius
Paladin
Leila
Leo
Isaac
Courtney Blair
Tromador
Mephisto
Liya
and with Syd missing....how many more were yet to suffer, Sorenti wondered, he shivered with the thought and pushed open the gate.

((sorry if I missed any Vents but gettin' old...loss of memory...senility setting in and all that lol